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• Garrett on solar panels fire risk: 'schemes operates under Coalition-set standards'
  
• Garrett seeks to leverage carbon markets to protect biodiversity
  
• Victorian offshore carbon storage bill goes before Parliament
  
• Newmont triples size of CO2 Australia sequestration project

Dumped Coalition leader Malcolm Turnbull today accused new leader Tony Abbott of not wanting to do anything about climate change, but Abbott's likely new climate spokesman Greg Hunt says it's time to look at what 'direct action' can deliver.

• 'We can and must deploy CCS within a decade,' U.S. says
  
• Second attempt to plug oil leak fails
  
• Climate change less of a priority, poll finds
  
• Australian Energy Alliance calls for G20 technology fund
  
• DCC finalises free permit criteria for three more industries

• AGL wins renewables contract for Adelaide desal plant
  
• Garrett exempts oil spill fight from EPBC Act processes
  
• Four Corners looks at slow progress on CCS

• Put 20% of permit revenue into low-carbon technology, report says
  
• Carbon capture pilot launched at Victorian power plant
  
• Garrett proposes national waste policy

• NSW releases draft energy savings scheme rule
  
• Climate officials brief Senate on U.S. bill
  
• Greens blast Wong over timeframe error
  
• CCS guidelines now available

Stung into action by pressure from green groups and industry, Australia's environment ministers agree to release in July the RIS for a proposed e-waste scheme and to consider the final plan in November.

The WA EPA has issued recommendations that clear the way for a project it considers should not go ahead 'as a matter of principle' – the massive Gorgon LNG gas project that would establish three LNG production trains on a Class A nature reserve and store CO2 deep underground.

• Garrett moves on national waste policy
  
• SA environment court fines waste firm $460,000
  
• Former World Bank chief to head Rudd's CCS advisory council
  
• NSW launches biodiversity 'credits wanted' service
  
• More Gore – new book out in November

In some circumstances the Federal Government should accredit state and territory approval processes as satisfactory for EPBC Act purposes, recommends a draft Productivity Commission report on the upstream oil and gas sector released this afternoon.